skip to content
Medical tourism
ClosePreview this item

Medical tourism

Author: John Connell
Publisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, ©2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:

With increasing numbers of people travelling abroad for medical or cosmetic procedures, medical tourism is now a growing niche in the tourism market. This book looks at the background and rise of  Read more...

Getting this item's online copy... Getting this item's online copy...

Find a copy in the library

Getting this item's location and availability... Getting this item's location and availability...

WorldCat

Find it in libraries globally
Worldwide libraries own this item

Details

Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Connell
ISBN: 9781845936600 1845936604
OCLC Number: 609538333
Description: xii, 209 p. : ill., maps, facsims. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction: patients without borders --
The antiquity of health tourism --
Mind and matter: health tourism or cosmetic surgery? --
The rise of medical tourism --
Medical tourism and the new Asia --
Marketing medical tourism --
The economics of medical tourism --
Extremes, ethics and inequality --
But is it tourism? --
Global health.
Responsibility: John Connell.
Retrieving notes about this item Retrieving notes about this item

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.